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livepatch: fix format string in kobject_init_and_add()

kobject_init_and_add() takes expects format string for a name, so we
better provide it in order to avoid infoleaks if modules craft their
mod->name in a special way.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Jiri Kosina 10 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 2 2
      kernel/livepatch/core.c

+ 2 - 2
kernel/livepatch/core.c

@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ static int klp_init_func(struct klp_object *obj, struct klp_func *func)
 	func->state = KLP_DISABLED;
 
 	return kobject_init_and_add(&func->kobj, &klp_ktype_func,
-				    obj->kobj, func->old_name);
+				    obj->kobj, "%s", func->old_name);
 }
 
 /* parts of the initialization that is done only when the object is loaded */
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ static int klp_init_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
 	patch->state = KLP_DISABLED;
 
 	ret = kobject_init_and_add(&patch->kobj, &klp_ktype_patch,
-				   klp_root_kobj, patch->mod->name);
+				   klp_root_kobj, "%s", patch->mod->name);
 	if (ret)
 		goto unlock;